CURRICULUM VITAE

   K.A.Geetha                                                                                             

   Professor

   Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

   Chamber No. A 313/13,

   BITS Pilani, K.K.Birla Goa Campus

   NH- 17B Zuari Nagar, Vasco-Da-Gama

   Goa, India

   Tel (Office): +91-0832-2580232

   Mobile +91 8805209235

    kageetha@gmail.com ; geetha@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in

    http://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/goa/geethaka/profile

   Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=YK8RQWEAAAAJ&hl=en

   Orcid ID: org/0000-0002-4390-6027

   Scopus Author ID: 50061219800

    Research ID:  S-4721-2019

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EDUCATION

 PhD in Tamil Dalit Studies

 Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras (2004-2009).

 Title: Tamil Dalit Literature: Production, Institutionalization and Reception

 M Phil in English

 Department of English, University of Madras (1989-1990)

 Area of Specialization – African-American Drama

 Title: The Theme of Absurdity in the Plays of Ed Bullins      

 M A in English 

 Department of English, University of Madras (1987-1989) 

 BA in English

  Department of English, University of Madras (1984-1987)    

 CERTIFICATIONS

 Lectureship Eligibility Test, UGC- NET: 1991

 PGCTE, EFLU, Hyderabad, 1998

TEACHING INTERSTS

Cultural Studies

Post-Colonial Literatures

Dalit Literature

COURSES TAUGHT/TEACHING AT PRESENT

• Cultural Studies
• Post Colonial Literatures
• Dalit Literature
• Literary Theory
• Technical Communication
• Phonetics and Spoken English
• Advanced Communicative English
• Theoretical Approaches to Liberal Studies
• Linguistics
• Caste and Gender in India

COURSES DESIGNED & INTRODUCED

Post Colonial Literatures - HSS F340  singly designed and introduced the course in BITS – 2015

Caste and Gender in India-HSS F369-singly designed and introduced the course in BITS – 2019

WILP – Critical Analysis of Literature and Cinema - BSDC*ZC322           co-authored the course design and guided the teaching faculty – 2020

M.Phil. – Theoretical Approaches to Liberal studies HSS G512 – co-authored the course design and introduced in BITS, Goa – 2019

COURSES DEVELOPED

Literary Criticism- ENGL C 331/HSSF335-redesigned the handout and course contents and introduced in BITS Goa – 2012

Linguistics – HSS F222 - redesigned the handout and course contents and introduced in BITS, Goa – 2012

Cultural Studies  - GS F242 - redesigned the handout and course contents – 2014

WILP – Cultural Studies- BSDCH ZC242- prepared the Teacher’s notes for the course – 2021

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (BITS, Goa)

2023 – till date: Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani,  K.K.Birla Goa Campus

2018- 2023: Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS  Pilani, K.K.Birla Goa Campus, Goa

2010 - 2018: Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,  BITS Pilani, KK Birla Goa Campus, Goa

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Cultural Studies

Dalit Studies

Women Studies

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

1. Contesting Categories, Remapping Boundaries: Literary Interventions by Tamil Dalits. Cambridge Scholarly Publications: UK (2014 ) ISBN 978-1-4438-6808-2
2.  An Introduction to Tamil Dalit Literature  Emerald Publishers : India (2022) ISBN 9789392188190

JOURNAL ARTICLES/ESSAYS

3. (Co-authored with Gyanesh Govindarajan et al).“Enhancing Social Capital and Reciprocity through Community News Media during Covid-19: A Study of Video Volunteers: Online Information Review Vol.47:7(2023)1396-1414. https://doi.org/10.1108/OIR-09-2022-0514 (Web of Science & Scopus Q1 H index – 64; Impact factor 5.4)
4. (co-authored with Bhuhan Sharma) “ Casteing Gender : Interstional Oppression of Dalit women” Journal of International Women’s Studies Vol 22 : 10 (2021) 1-7 (Scopus Q3)
5. Entrenched Fissures : Caste and Social Differences among the Devadasis” Journal of International Women’s Studies Vol 22 : 4 (2021) 87-96 (Scopus Q3)
6. “ Embedded Heirarchies and Subjugated differences : A Study of Tamil Dalit Women”in Reading Dalit : Essays on Literary Representations” (Ed) GJV Prasad. Pencraft International, New Delhi  (2020) pp- 122-131
7. “Housing the Unhomely: A Study of Srilankan Panchamar Fiction” (2020) Interventions: International Journal of Post Colonial Studies Vol 22: 7 (2020) 951-965 https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2020.1784023 (Web of Science & Scopus Q1)
8.  “ Memory as Communication : An Analysis of the Reclamation of Panchami Lands” Interventions : International Journal of Post Colonial Studies Vol 22: 8 (2020) 1110-1122 https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2020.1753549 (Web of Science & Scopus Q1)
9.  “In Perennial oppression : Internalised Ideologies of the Devadasis” Journal of International Women’s Studies Vol 21: 2 (2020) 67-7https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol21/iss2/7 (Scopus Q3)                                                                                                                
10. “Stripping Illusions and Mirroring Realities: Ed Bullins, the Absurdist” IUP Journal of English Studies Vol.XIII: 1 (2018) 23-32. (Scopus Q2)
11. “ Shifting Terrains : The Fashioning of the Tamil Dalit Subject” Readings on Dalit Identity : History, Literature and Religion Ed. Swaraj Basu   Orient Blackswan: Hyderabad (2016)  261-279
12. (with) Priyanshu Gupta “ Cultural in Context – Divergences in Rural and Urban Consumer Behavior International Journal of Communication Vol 25 : 1-2  (2015) 77-95
13. “Not a Literature of Lament : An Analysis of Emerging themes and Trends in Tamil Dalit Literature” IUP Journal of English Studies Vol 10 :           3(2015) 50-58 (Scopus Q2)
14.  “ Unified Tamil Dalit Identity: Problematics and Anomalies”      Prose Studies : History, Theory, Criticism Routledge : U.S.A Vol 36 Issue 2 (2014) 130 –       140 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01440357.2014.933575 (Web of Science & ScopusQ1)
15. “A Dalit Among Dalits : The Angst of Tamil Dalit Women”   Literature of our Times: Post Colonial studies in       the Twenty First Century Ed.s Bill Ashcroft et al. Rodopi Press:NewYork (2012) 411-432 https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401207393_027
16.  “From Panchamars to Dalit: The Evolution of Tamil Dalit Writing” Prose Studies History,Theory,Criticism Routledge : U.S.A Volume 33 Issue 2 (2012)            117-131 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01440357.2011.632220(Web of Science & Scopus -Q1)
17. (with  O.J.Joycee) “Self-Consciously Indian, Sub-Consciously Judaic : A Study of Nissim Ezekiel’s Poems” Conspectus: A Journal of English Studies Volume 6 (2012) 45-55
18.  “Societal Transformation Through Literature: A Study of Students’ Response to Tamil Dalit Literature” Interventions : International Journal of Postcolonial StudiesVolume13 No.3 (2011)398-421http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2011.597598 (Web of Science and Scopus Q1)
19.  “Representation and Resistance: Strategies in Bama’s Karukku and Raj Gautaman’s Siluvai Raj     Sarithiram” Journal of Post Colonial Writing Routledge : U.K. Volume 47Issue3, (2011) 320-329http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2011.564899  (Web of Science and Scopus Q1)
20. “Roles” (Trans.) No Alphabet in Sight: New Dalit Writing from South India Dossier 1:
    Tamil and Malayalam Edited by K. Satyanarayana and Susie Tharu  Penguin, India (2011) 75-80
21.  "In Need of Translation: An Analysis of Srilankan Dalit Literature” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature.   (2010)  Volume 41 33 44 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/ariel/article/viewFile/35085/28976 (Web of Sciences & Scopus Q2)
22. (with K.Srilata) “From Subjugation to Celebration- A Study of Bama’s Karukku and Sangati” Language Forum,.Vol.33 No.1. June (2007) 85-97
23. (with K.Srilata) “Tamil Dalit Women: Subjugated Differences” Akshara: International Annual Research Journal of Critical and Creative Writing Vol. 4. March 2008, 24-30. 

PUBLICATIONS (IN TAMIL)

• A.Geetha “Virivu Perum Porulum Marupadum Adaiyalamum” Kaalasuvadu Kaalasuvadu Pathipagam : Chennai Issue 107 (2008) 57-58

http://www.kalachuvadu.com/archives/issue-

INVITED TALKS/ WORKSHOPS

• Invited speaker at the National conference, “Gender Writes: A Dialogue on Rewriting the Gender”, Vidya Probodhini college, Goa, April 2024
• Resource person – State level workshop on Understanding Research Methods”, Goa State Research foundation, Goa, February 2024
• Resource person – State level Workshop on Research Methodology in English language and literature, DMRC College, Asagao, Goa, August 2023

• " Cultural theory and Literary Studies" at the International PDP on Emerging Trends in English Studies organized by Patrician College of Arts & Science, Chennai, July 2023
• Resource person - workshop on Research Methodology for Language teachers at the Faculty Development program organized by Directorate of Higher Education, Goa State Research Foundation and Goa University. June 2023
• " Literary History of Tamil Dalit Literature" at the Lecture series on Tamil studies organized by Sri Sri Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies, Sri Sri University, Odisha, June 2023
• "Gendering Caste : A Study of Dalit Women" at the Faculty development Webinar on Gender Sensitization organized by B.T.M.College, West Bengal. in July 2020

• Memory as Communication" at the Plenary session of the International Conference on Cultural Semiotics of English language and Literature organized by ELTAI(English Language Teachers Association of India) and Hindu College, Chennai in March 2018

• “Caste and gender :Interlocking Oppression" at the UGC sponsored National Seminar on The "Politics of Gender", at Vimala College, Thrissur March 2015

• Asserting Identities : Marginality and Resistance in Tamil Dalit women" at the National Symposium on "Women's Voices" at SDNB Vaishnav, Chennai, February

PAPERS PRESENTED IN INTERNATIONAL& NATIONAL CONFERENCES

•  " Estrangement and Precarity: The Living Deaths of Srilankan Tamil Dalits" at the Twenty-first International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Sorbonne Université, Faculte des Lettres, Paris, France, June 2023
• (with  G.Gyanesh " Women as Counter publics : A Feminist Critical Discourse of the Farmers' Protest" accepted for presentation in the 8th World Conference on Women Studies organised by TIIKM and Bridge water State University, Virtual presentation , 12-14 May 2022
•  “A Study of Caste and Social Hierarchy within the Devadasi System” at the 6^th World  Conference on Women Studies organized by TIIKM and Bridge Water State  University , July 2020, Virtual presentation
• “Muted Voices: Intersectional Oppression of the Dalit Devadasi” at the 5^th World Conference on Women Studies organized by TIIKM and Bridge Water State University in Bangkok, April 2019 
• “Fiction and Reality: Reclamation of Panchami Lands” at the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Multidisciplinary Research” organized by American College, Madurai at Tamil Centre, Singapore, December 2017,
•  “Reading Srilankan Literature as Dalit Literature " at an International Conference held at the University of Humboldt, Berlin, May 2017

• " Marginalized within the Periphery: An analysis of Tamil Dalit women"   at the International Conference on Language, Literature and Culture organised by The Institute of Advanced Studies in English, Pune, February 2016 
•  “Fissures and Divergences: A Study of Tamil Dalit Identities” at the National Workshop cum Seminar on “Counter Writing- Dalits and Subalterns”, Central University of Hyderabad & ICSSR, October 2014
• “Being Dalit, Being Woman – An Analysis of Bama’s Sangati and Imayam’s Beasts of Burden” at the VII World Conference & XV All India English Teachers Annual Conference on Globalization and Literature at Nehru Arts College, Hubli, Karnataka , April 2010
•  “A Dalit among Dalits : The angst of Tamil Dalit women” at the 14th Triennial ACLALS Conference, Vancouver, Canada ,August 2007
• Geetha “Subjugated Differences – Positioning Tamil Dalit women” at the Second International &38^th Annual ELTAI Conference at Chennai, Feb. 2007
• (with K.Srilata) “The Self in Dalit Autobiographies- Personal or Collective?” at the International Conference on Common wealth literature, IIT Roorkee, Oct.2005
• (with O.J.Joycee “Self-Consciously Indian, Sub-Consciously Judaic : A Study of Nissim Ezekiel’s Poems” at the International seminar, Benares Hindu University, Jan.2005

RESEARCH PROJECTS - ONGOING

• A project proposal titled " Museum Effect: A Case Study of Goa State Museum and Goa Chitra Museum" approved by SPARC - Rs.67,17,538. (Collaboration with University of Victoria, Canada & University of Vienna, Austria)

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH

• A collaborative research project with Prof. Bonnie Zare, Director, Department of Sociology, Virginia Tech University, U.S.A - "A cross cultural study on Reader Response to Dalit Women Short Stories" (forthcoming)

THESIS SUPERVISION

PhD Thesis: Gnanabharathi. “Alterations and Adapatations : An analysis of the Indigenous Spaces of Nilgris Irulas (Completed - 2019)                                                                                                            

PhD Thesis: Sushant Kishore. “The Performative Politics of Ethnocultural Nationalism in India: Thespian and Quotidian Performances in Hindu Nationalism” (Completed – 2019)

PhD Thesis : Priteegandha Naik “ Dalit Futurism : Caste and Gender in Indian Science Fiction”                                                                                                                  (Completed 2023)

PhD Thesis -Mahesh Varghese. ‘To Make live and Let Die’: A study of the Life, Death and its Governance in Select Malayalam Fiction” (in progess)

PhD Thesis : Fernandes Ann Rochelle. " Unearthing Silenced Histories: Re-reading Portuguese colonialism through the lens of Adopted Children in Goa" (in progess)

PhD Thesis: Basma Mahfoud. Research on the linguistic and cultural translations of Dalit Literature - Co-supervision with Prof. Judith Misrahi Barak, University of Paul Valery Montpellier 3, France (subject to approval from AGSRD)

Undergraduate Thesis: Abhishek Prabhakar. “Economic flows of Globalization” (2014)

Undergraduate Thesis: Kaushal Sapre. “The Indianness of Indian Art: A Semiotic study”(2014)

PHD THESIS EVALUATION

2016 – University of Madras - PhD Thesis titled “Gendered Passions and Masculinity Construction: Reflections on Tamil Identity during 1930’s”

2020 – University of Madras – PhD thesis titled “Writing for the Children as a Child – A Study of Ruskin Bond’s Craft of Writing”

2020 – Manomaniam Sundaranar University – PhD thesis titled “The Narratives of Amitav Ghosh: Palimpsest and Fact-Finding Dichotomy”

2022 – Mahatma Gandhi University – PhD thesis – “The Dialectics of the Anthropomorphic Subaltern: A Study of Select Texts from Contemporary Popular Culture”

2022 –Calicut University – PhD Thesis titled “Subversive Survival: Trauma and Post Traumatic Resilience in Select North-East Indian Literary Imagination”

EDITORIAl/PEER- REVIEWING ASSIGNMENTS

Invited by University Grants Commission (UGC) to review applucations submitted for Research Grants and Post Doctoral fellowships – 2023

Joint Editor Special Issue on Dalit Women , Journal of International Women Studies, Vol 22:10 (2021)

Journal of Post Colonial Writing, Taylor and Franscis

Journal of Intercultural communication, Taylor and Francis

Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Sage

Journal of South Asian Studies, ESCI

SEMINARS / WORKSHPS ORGAINSED

• Organizer for events of CADALFEST (Celebrating Adivasi and Dalit Arts and Literature Festival) a project funded by UK Arts and Humanities research council, Nottingham Trent University’s Postcolonial Studies Centre and the research center EMMA at the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France.

1. 20th October 2022- Moderator for Formations – Adivasi and Dalit Futurism: Artists Subash Thebe Limbu and Osheen Siva in Conversation, jointly organized by Nottingham Trent University and Bonington Gallery, U.K
2. 12th November 22 - CADALFEST workshop – organized a Workshop on Dalit Futurism by artist Osheen Siva at BITS Goa- jointly organized by University Paul Valery Montpellier III, France and Nottingham Trent University, U.K.

• Coordinator , National seminar on “Place, Space ,Travel, Displacement, Exile” organized by Department of Humanities& Social Sciences, BITS Pilani & IACLALS, February 2015
• Coordinator, National level workshop on “ Innovative Pedagogies for Enhancing the Employability skills for Students” organized by Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, Goa campus, September 2013

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

Head, Department of Humanities and Social Science, BITS Pilani, Goa Campus ( May 2022 till date)

Presiding Officer – Internal Complaints Committee, BITS Pilani, Goa campus (October  2020- January 2023)

Convenor, Departement Research Committee, Dept.of HSS, (Nov.2019 – May 2022)

Nucleus Member – Academic Undergraduate Studies Division (August 2018-Feb 2023)

Resident Warden, Women’s Hostel, BITS Pilani, Goa (July 2016-Dec 2021)

Member, Academic Counseling Board , BITS Pilani, Goa (Aug 2018- May 2022)

Member- Department faculty search Committee (July 2018 -tilldate)

Member - Department Student Faculty Council (2016)

Member – Mess committee (2016-2018)

Member, Library Committee , BITS Pilani, Goa (Aug2011-2013)

Coordinator, Academic Counseling Board, BITS Pilani, Goa (August 2010 – August 2018)

Convener - Publications Committee- Convocation (2016-2019)

NAAC SSR Data Preparation team – Nucleus member -(March – October 2022)

Project Lakshya - Nucleus member for Academic Research (2018-2019)

GATI Project – Nucleus member(Oct.2021-Till date)

BITSAT Question Bank -Member (Feb - April 2017)